Http to Https URL rewriting

Question

My requirement is straight forward. i have Http://abc need to make it Https://abc . I have added the folowing code in web.config. ie added new rule in IIS. I have folowwed the URL rewriting module in IIS.

<rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="http to https" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="(.*)" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^off$" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" redirectType="Found" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>

But still it doesn't work for me. Help me out.

Answer 1

The code you are using is very similar to what I use in production except that I use redirectType="Permanent" and I happen to use a hard coded domain name to ensure a canonical domain and I use {R:1} for the path and query but I think using {HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI} as you are should work however you may need a slash between the two.

Give this a try:

 <system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
        <rules>
            <rule name="http to https" stopProcessing="true">
                <match url="(.*)" />
                <conditions>
                    <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^off$" />
                </conditions>
                <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
            </rule>
        </rules>
    </rewrite>
 </system.webServer>